"The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself."

-- Norman Mailer

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“I can be a much better player. I've got a long ways to go.”
“In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.”
“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.”
“GDP tells you nothing about sustainability”
“I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay with BEING vulnerable, whereas the ego is the protecter, and even though you think you're protecting, I think you are more vulnerable if you're in ego.”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.
“I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.”
“Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“Typing is no substitute for thinking.”

Source : "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.

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